Educational device.



l. R. CLARK.

EDUCATIONAL DEVICE.

APPLICATION man APRA, 1914.

Patented May 11, 1915.

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JESSE R. CLARK, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO THE FOR-BESLITHOGRAPI-I MFG. CO., OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OFMASSACHUSETTS.

EDUCATIONAL DEVICE.

specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 11, 1915.

Application filed April A, 1914. Serial No. 829,447.

T0 all whom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, Jnssn R. CLARK, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of Chicago, Illinois, have invented an Improvement inEducational Devices, of which the following description, in connectionwith the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters onthe drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to educational devices, and among other objectsaims to stimulate interest in a subject and so closely direct theattention thereto as to forcibly impress and fix the subject in themind.

The character of the invention may be best understood by reference'tothe following description of an illustrative embodiment thereof shown inthe accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a plan view of an illustrative educational device embodyingthe invention; and Figs. 2 and 3 are details to be referred to.

Referring to the drawing, a designates a sheet typified herein as a partof a book containing incomplete pictures b, o, in which features, suchfor example as important features thereof, are lacking. Spaces c, c forthe missing portions of the pictures are left blank and are adapted tobe filled in by stickers d, o?, each of a size to iit in the blank spaceof the picture and having on one side the missing portion ofthe pictureand on the other side an adhesive coating. After the stickers are pastedin the blank spaces the pictures are complete. Preferably the devicecomprises a series of sheets each provided with an incomplete picture orpictures, the missing portions of which are to be supplied by stickerssuch as described. This series may relate to one subject, such forexample as historical points of interest in various cities, or ifdesired the series may relate to dierent subjects. As shown herein thepicture on the left of the sheet is The Leland Stanford, Jr. Universityand the lacking feature is a statue supplied by the sticker; while thepicture on the right of the sheet is Niagara Falls and the lackingfeature is The Maid of the Mist supplied by the sticker. A child may besupplied with a book containing such pictures and also with an assemblyof the stickers, said pictures and stickers being marked if l ers intheir appropriate blanks.

desired to enable the child to identify the different stickers with thepictures to which they belong.

The physical act of selecting the sticker and applying and fitting it tothe blank of the picture closely concentrates the mind of the child onthe subject thereof so as forcibly to impress the same upon his mind. Anadvantage in providing` a series of these incomplete pictures resides inthe incentive to fill the stickers in the blanks of all of the picturesand thereby complete the series. Thus his mind is directed andconcentrated to and carried along through the entire series. Preferablythe sticker contains an important feature of the picture which forms acomplete entity in itself. By thus placing such a portion of the pictureon the sticker the childs attention is focused advantageously thereon.In pasting the sticker in its blank in its appropriate position his mindis naturally directed to the features in the picture associated with orsurrounding the sticker. Thus his attention also is desirably directedthereto. A title or descriptive paragraph may be printed beneath thepicture.

The device is not only useful from its educational point of view, butalso it may be used advantageously as an advertising medium. Forexample, in merchandizing a commodity each package thereof may besupplied with a sticker containing the missing portion of a picture.After six packages have been purchased and six stickers Vcollected, thepurchaser may be given a book containing fifty pictures with blanks suchas described so that he may paste the stick- He continues to purchasethe packages and paste stickers in blanks until the entire series iscomplete. As a reward and incentive for the completing of the book thepurchaser may be given a nicely bound new book containing a series ofcomplete unpatched pictures of the lsame subjects as those contained inthe book in which the customerv has applied the stickers.

In selecting the packages for sale at randomthere of course would belikelihood that a single purchaser would obtain duplicate stickers. Thiswould stimulate exchanging or trading of the stickers and thus the saleof the commodity would spread and increase.

It will be understood that it is not essential that the series of sheetscontaining the pictures be in book form since they might be on separatesheets or cards if desired.

Having described one illustrative embodiment of the invention Withoutlimiting the same thereto, What I claim as new and desire to secure byLetters Patent is:

An educational device comprising a series of main7 incomplete pictures,each having an interruption therein leaving a blank space, the series ofblank spaces being of similar contour, and a series of complete pictureelements of similar contour, each of said elements formed to fit one ofsaid spaces,

and containing matter identifying the same With one of the mainpictures, and supplying the missing part of such main picture, and anadhesive coating on each of said incomplete picture elements forsecuring the same permanently in its proper space.

In testimonyT whereof, l have signed my name to this specification, inthe presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JESSE R. CLARK.

Witnesses: Y

C. O. SHEPHERD, A. R. WAGNER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. C.

